From. One vet tech to another don't you wish all doc's were like her 😅47 years for me. I've worked for 12 vets in total both large and small animal as well as being head zoo keeper. I really do miss it but at 80 I can't lift a large dogs off the surgery table. I lasted until I was 74 working 12' 14 hour days until the end.

It is very painful. I had my horse's eye removed this year in February. We tried everything to save the eye but the condition is so painful I only had two choices, eye removed or putting him to sleep. He is 27 and he is doing great, back to his old self.

Complicated question. As one person responded to you their horse was in severe pain and had to have the eye removed. So the answer is. . .It depends. It depends on the cause of the Moon Blindness. With a potentially ongoing chronic inflammation case like we saw in the video and charlotte responded it can be painful and it can be more painful with time and the longer it remains inflamed and sometimes even with treatment may not be manageable. Other times. . .It can be very fast and done and the eye won't need to be removed especially in cases such as trauma. I worked putting rides on green horses and haying fields at a ranch and they had a mustang who was from the BLM and had complete moon blindness in one eye and it looked like a cloud 24/7/365, but it never bothered him at all. No Drainage, no nothing and you just knew he couldn't see you when you were on that side so you did most work like actually mounting him and such from the side he had his good eye. Imagine being run through those chutes as a wild mustang and small areas with lots of other horses being scared about what it going on and it's easy to bang your face/eye very hard into something if you are going fast out of fear and they're wild wild so unable to be handled and vetted unless it's an emergency so the horse goes blind. For a majority it is a chronic and painful condition of an immune disorder and for some it can happen from other reasons and they can still retain the eye with full moon blindness, completely blind and act like any other horse. The major concern that happens is when it's an inflammatory chronic issue . . . .it can spread to the other eye even if you remove the eye that has it because it's an immune disorder issue.

@@blackdandelion5549 that was a great answer, thank you. I have known a horse to have it and it went blind in the end but it never had pain and neither was the eye inflammed. I think you can tell if the horse is in pain because how the eye looks and how it is reacting. This little pony was in pain. When the eye is that swollen and more or less shut, that is a sign of pain. My horse had two big flares where he was in pain, then it went away for five months. Came back even worse on xmas day and after weeks of medication as soon as we stopped them it flared back up. We are very careful of his one eye as the vets do seem to think it has something to do with his immunesystem. Murphy is an Irish Cob, he also has allergies. At the moment he's never been better. We've changed his diet and some other things. All I know is to check horses eyes daily and call a vet for even just a runny eye. Sadly that didn"t save his eye, but it saved his life because I didn't wait to call a vet.

@@blackdandelion5549 Thanks for explaining all that. I never knew. 😳

@@blackdandelion5549 that was a mouthful